This isn’t quite accurate – there will be at least one interpreter present, most likely Putin’s guy.
So a hostile foreign power will control ALL specifics on what was discussed and decided, including the wording.
The State Department’s interpreters are legendary for their accuracy and knowledge. Why doesn’t Trump want them there?
… To Discuss Cyber-Rigging the 2018 Congressional Elections
Because nothing says no collusion no collusion you’re the collusion like unrecorded one-on-one meetings between you and the person you’re alleged to be colluding with.
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Trump hates accuracy and knowledge.
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Trump doesn’t like to discuss betraying his country while there are any Americans around to overhear him.
Putin will finally get that new back patio he’s been hoping for.
Perfectly normal. What’s the big deal?
Sarcasm aside, it does seem significant that Trump now is confident that he can get away with this. With his earlier one-on-ones with Putin there was at least some attempt to disguise what was happening.
Also: waiting for TPM to say something (unless I missed it) about the 7 Russian senators meeting with Putin on July 4th. It seems to stem from the same view of the present conditions. (Although at least some of them had the decency to send tweets pretending to be celebrating the 4th in Washington DC).
AKA: Getting in bed with the enemy.
O/T, but really not…
“Hubris syndrome” is a disorder of the possession of power, particularly power which has been associated with overwhelming success, held for a period of years and with minimal constraint on the leader. Its 14 clinical features include: manifest contempt for others, loss of contact with reality, restless or reckless actions, and displays of incompetence.
Contempt for others: check
Loss of contact with reality: check
Restless or restless actions: check
Displays of incompetence: double-check
Putin will finally get that new back patio he’s been hoping for.
Some of us would prefer the “Front Porch” nomenclature…
The NATO members take turns to have fighter jets and ground troops stationed in the baltic states, as a sign of support and a deterrent to Russia.
Just a meeting of equals. Well, equally corrupt anyway … but Putin is Trump’s better in every other way. Trump might have a flicker of recognition of this deep down where some reality still resides. Nah.
Trump doesn’t want anyone see him gagging.
No different than his little pow wow in the Oval Office with the Russki’s and no American press.
RT gave us nice pictures and an honest account of what went down /s
Love is in the air?
Now there’s a headline that inspires confidence. In the sense of a confidence game, that is…
Maybe Trump will let Putin tap his tweeter…
You can be quite certain that Putin will be recording the meeting.
#Treason
This is the Trump that will be meeting privately with Putin:
BOGOTA, Colombia — As a meeting last August in the Oval Office to discuss sanctions on Venezuela was concluding, President Donald Trump turned to his top aides and asked an unsettling question: With a fast unraveling Venezuela threatening regional security, why can’t the U.S. just simply invade the troubled country?..
The suggestion stunned those present at the meeting, including U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, both of whom have since left the administration. This account of the previously undisclosed conversation comes from a senior administration official familiar with what was said.
Then in September, on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, Trump discussed it again, this time at greater length, in a private dinner with leaders from four Latin American allies that included Santos, the same three people said and Politico reported in February…
The U.S. official said Trump was specifically briefed not to raise the issue and told it wouldn’t play well, but the first thing the president said at the dinner was, “My staff told me not to say this.” Trump then went around asking each leader if they were sure they didn’t want a military solution, according to the official, who added that each leader told Trump in clear terms they were sure.
So what are the odds that someone in Five Eyes wires him or the room?